The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1887-08-27
Vicinity Items.

Work on the |. V. IL n railroad from
Walnut to StIeator has begun at the Twin
Cities.
The Wenona Inder has been sold to
franklin " Dicus. Ii. l.. Taylor goes to
Omaha TO join his brother Cadet and ). Z.
Rounds ON The Republican.
La Sale is trying ~ get Clara Louise
Kellogg for concert this fall.
A locomotive spark set fire TO 90 tons OF
hay belonging to man named Goldman
near Utica, all the hay being destroyed.
Mr.. Stockdale says that the institute
register shows that 213 teachers were en-.
rolled during the three weeks
La Sale consumes, II Is said $4,000
warth Of limbuger cheese annually. Ottawa
probably doesn't. But II all depends on
" how man has been raised"
| The Illinois Pipe Mfg. Co. has been
Incorporated at La Sale; capital $40, 900,
to make cemented iron pipe.
The Total tax for all purp .ses to be levied
on joliet this year fOots up by estimates
$25l 600! Ii would seem to be luxury
to live In Joliet.
The burned Cathedral Glass Works at
Streator have been rebuilt, a fire will be
started next week.
s j. lIaight Jr. has a we'll recently dug,
at Merden, that at depth of 30 feet the
water comes in SO fast that ii cannot be
lowered sufficiently to allow the we'll to be
stoned up although two pumps and barrel
operated by horse are used for that pur-
pose
| The Joliet Signdl says that 43 convicts
will be released from the penitentiary dur.
ing August, three of whom were sent up
from La Sale County-Thomas Howard
for II years; John Sisco years, Frank
Nelson A years
Farmers report that since the late rains
timothy is coming up nicely, but in many
spots blue grass is dead, past redemption.
The contract for stone work for the |, v
& n. road across the Illinois river at La
Sale has been let to Alex. Bruce ~ Co,
and Frank Birkenbeuel, Sr., has been EN-
ployed to take charge of the work
The portable steel rail saw recently pur.
chased by the c., b. Il Q. company at AN
outlay of $4,000, now in active operation
at South Aurora, is attracting attention.
The car, saw and attachments complete
weigh sixty five tons, the Car being forty
feet long and made of solid iron. A two
hundred horse power boiler Is placed In
position on the car, besides pair of en-.
gines with like capacity of two hundred
horse power. The saw is what is known
as the flat steel fusion disc which "A diam
eter of forty -'wo inches. II makes twenty
five hundred revolutions a minute, and
though the daily average of rails cut is
two hundred, Mr. Cannerman states that
as three hundred and fifty have been cut
in single day The rails are picked up by
the construction train and piled in some
convenient locality, the portable saw is
then called into requisition, the battered
ends cut OF, new holes drilled and the rail
is rs good as new again. Sometimes
damaged section is taken out of the
middle Of the rail, in all cases the
steel being cut cold just as 1t is picked up
from the ground The new method Is
great saving 10 the company In both time
and money, the damaged rails being made
rs good AS new at saving of about sixty
cents ton and leaving the rails straight
ened and with edges rs even as desired.
The Utica pottery building is completed
and the engine and boiler are in position
They are now waiting for the rest Of the
machinery, and as soon as II is in place
work will be commenced. II Is thought
they will be able to start up about the first
of September. The working force at frst
will consist Of about twelve men, most of
them being skilled workmen One kiln
has been built, which is all they will use
ut present.
Natural gas has been found In Kankakee
county.
Mrs Sarah Farley died AZ the residence
Of her son.in-law, Gabriel Noel, in the
+ town of jackson. August 18th, 1897, in the
Oath year OF her age. She was married IL
, 1874 and In 1923, with her husband ant
!, family, emigrated 10 Illinois, settling frs
near Danyille, In 1881, they went 10 Jolie
A., and settled upon the land In the southern
part of the township, known so Well as the
!, farley farm, where her son James now re-
sides. Mrs Farley waI one Of the very
earliest settlers OF that township, goiig
there before the city had a name or va
ever dreamed OF, and when the natives
roamed up and down the DesPla ant
hickory at their own will During tbs
Black Hawk war the family found ref
uge for a few DAYS in the stockade built OF
the western bluff OF Joliet, and afterw ard.
lied To ID awhile, where James G. was born
Her husband was enc of the first justice
l of the place IN viii county, having heel
elected while Will county WAS still pert o
Cook county He was always highly res
. pected and influential from the time h,
i came until his death Ia 1853. Mrs Earle,
D was the mother 81 seven children all ono,
e well known in VIII cpuay, of VIII m onll
n four now survive. Two Of those now de
o ceased were the proprietUrs 10 the Jolle
Sigtdl for many years
e A fellow peddling silverwsre visite,
i Minooka Friday aud called on Mrs. Col
= lups. She made q purchase, and the maj
d observed where she placed ner poke
y book. He returned to the house the othe
night aud stole the wallet, which containe
4 SO. He Vas arrested at Minooks Satu
}, day.